logseman

Their status and whatever wage they commanded depended on training as few apprentices as possible.

You link to that press release like it means something more than changing a lake's name by fiat.

13000 euro a year is the yearly drinking budget of an outgoing San Francisco resident.

And then everyone started doing it, which meant that your local retailer isn't in business anymore (see local high streets in many countries). The choice you had 10-15 years ago doesn't exist anymore because everyone went for the cheaper price, and now the question is where the extra goes that we used to pay to the local retailer.

Burning books and destroying them in a way that nobody else can access the content anymore is a distinction without a difference.

> Like it or not, all publicly available information will inevitably become accessible to anyone and anything that has permission to access it. This is the baseline scenario people need to plan around.

The entire point of the situation is that permission is not involved. They just do it. Meanwhile, if I do it to them, I am fined/sent to prison/executed. Until such a time that this baseline scenario of inequality is somehow remedied, there will be a motivation to stop them.

Given the vacuum left by pinhole-sized states, Vodafone could become the issuer of propaganda itself as it would have the airwaves and the power of a large state.

It doesn't sound like a particularly large leap to think that polities as large as the Indian federal states could work as countries.

Your idol wants people to die for being who they are and no other reason at all. He says so himself. What's the narrative?

Do Not Track was the right implementation (browser-based, activate only once) and it was sabotaged by ad peddlers. It is bad policy that has been reached after every better alternative was rejected.

The "incentive" doesn't exist because by the economies of these networks everyone is at this point at the very least profiled by Facebook so that they can be targeted by malfeasant ads, and a very large majority are already enrolled. Therefore, the harm has happened without having incentivised anyone.

After weeks of discourse where the physical token of the Compact Disc had become the all-important object of the fight, it's reassuring to see that we're back at the beginning, where it was clearly understood that you don't meaningfully "own" a game if you need to be online to use any of it.

If LLMs are good at busy work, and it is expertise that lets you distinguish between busy work and valuable one, then it makes sense that they reward expertise.